Upgrade Firefox to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series. This equates to Firefox 3.1.

+

Upgrade Firefox to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series. This equates to Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1).

== Owner ==

== Owner ==

Line 15:

Line 15:

== Detailed Description ==

== Detailed Description ==

−

Rebase Firefox to the latest 3.1 release. This involves a rebase of XULRunner to 1.9.1 as well, and includes rebuilds of some dependent packages.

+

Rebase Firefox to the latest 3.5 release. This involves a rebase of XULRunner to 1.9.1 as well, and includes rebuilds of some dependent packages.

== Benefit to Fedora ==

== Benefit to Fedora ==

−

There are many improvements to the code in the XR1.9.1/FF3.1 branch including some nice performance wins. It will also give Fedora the latest release in the new line of code and prevent us from having a stale release which could potentially be EOL'd by upstream during F11's lifetime.

+

There are many improvements to the code in the XR1.9.1/FF3.5 branch including some nice performance wins. It will also give Fedora the latest release in the new line of code and prevent us from having a stale release which could potentially be EOL'd by upstream during F11's lifetime.

Owner

Current status

Percentage of completion: 100% (All known packages have been rebuilt against XR 1.9.1 -- and the mass rebuild helped ensure that any stragglers got rebuilt.)

Detailed Description

Rebase Firefox to the latest 3.5 release. This involves a rebase of XULRunner to 1.9.1 as well, and includes rebuilds of some dependent packages.

Benefit to Fedora

There are many improvements to the code in the XR1.9.1/FF3.5 branch including some nice performance wins. It will also give Fedora the latest release in the new line of code and prevent us from having a stale release which could potentially be EOL'd by upstream during F11's lifetime.

Scope

Requires rebasing xulrunner and firefox packages to the latest versions upstream and rebuild several packages.

Test Plan

Mozilla upstream has a great testsuite, run it on i386 and x86_64

Work with Fedora QA to ensure that we have sufficient coverage

User Experience

Browsing should be somewhat faster due to various improvements

New private browsing mode

Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.